Aeroplane race game



. A. E. JONES f AEROPLANE RACE GAME Filed Aug. 26,- 1920 BIVENTDR .PLEJUNE s AT fr u RNE? EHHLPZOT. TOFUZSLWIIS l instan OFFICE.

ALFRED E. JONES, F INDIAN ORCHARD, MASSACHUSETTS.

AEROPLANE Raon GAME.

Application led August 26, 1920. Serial No. 406,246.

A ing is a specification.

This inventlon relates to improvements in games for producing playmovements designed to create a contest such as develops between rivalaeroplanes traveling between two dista-nt points to determine therelative superiority of the drivers and the invention is embodied in agame apparatus comprising a play board or -game board laid out torepresent a national organization such as the United States of Americaand provided with a series of stopping points, preferably representingthe capitols of the various States or subdivisions of the Nation and aseries of aeroplane courses passing through the stopping' points orcapitols and preferably arranged on a cross country or continental plan.ln connection with this game or play board a. device is provided havinga series off plays of different value indicated in different positionsthereon and means for operating the device so that the player will, inmaking a play, indicate one of the diiferent play positions on theindicating device. The distances between the stopping points or capitolson the play or game board are indicated by mileage `ligures` andtherules of the game are so arranged that a player mustmake a number ofplays to -have a total count equal to the total mileage in any one ofvthe aeroplane courses, such as thel one over which a; play flight isbeing taken.

Penalties are provided whereby a player who acquires a total equal tothe mileage of a certain stopping point is compelled to return to thestarting point when a succeeding player ties his score at the stoppingpoint.

With the above and other objects in view this invention relates tocertain new' and useful constructions, combinations and arrangements ofparts, clearl described in the following specification an fullyillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

The vfigure is a plan view of the game' ap aratus.

' eferring to the accompanying drawing A designates the game or playboard, which 4may be constructed of cardboard. or any other suitablematerial, and which is provided with a map illustration representing theState d1v1s1ons of the United States of America in their geographical.relations.

Each of the State divisions B is provided 90 Wlth at least .one stoppingpoint C, preferablythe capitol ofthe State, and certain States, llkeCalifornia may be provided with more than one stopping point.

.The board is laid out to provide a series.

of aeroplane or flight courses shown to be six' in number and indicatedby the numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The starting point for courseorroute 1 1s Augusta, the capitol of the State of Maine, 7 and thesuccessive stopping points for the aeroplanes in traveling overthecourse .or route are Montpelier, Vermont; Lansing, Mlchlgan; Madison,Wisconsin; St.v Paul,

Minnesota; Bismarck, N. Dakota; Helena, 7.

Monta-na; and Olympia, Washington. The distances-between each twonearest stopping points is shown in mileage figures, as the distancebetween Augusta, Maine and Montpeller, Vermont, is shown as 125 miles,while the next trip, from Montpelier, Vermont to Lansing, Michigan, isshown as 725 miles, and`the mileage of each succeeding trip of the routeor course is given, always in multiples of 25 miles. A similararrangement is 8 followed for each of the other courses or routes.Course 1 to 5, inclusive, are cross continent ones, while course 6 is agulf route or course, taking in the Southern Gulf and Atlantic CoastStates. The terminal point of course four is Los Angeles, -on the SouthCalifornia coast, and the. starting point of course six is Palm Beach onthe Florida Atlantic Coast.

In playing the game two, three or four persons may participate. Eachplayer is provided with a miniature aeroplane E. The play is made byspinning an arrow F, mounted on the pivot G, to swing around the dial H,by means of motion imparted to it by the ringer of the player. The dialis divided into segments, each of which is numbered,`the starting pointbeing indicated by a cipher 0, the next one by 25, and so on inmultiples of 25 until the last division, which is indicated by 125. Thedivision into which the point of the indicating arrow projects whenitlstops represents the value of the play made. Thus, if the arrow stopsat 0 the player has not gained any headl way, while if it stops at I5-or100 he has gained or 100 miles. The total mileage obtained by a numberof succeeding plays is counted by separate counting devices provided foreach player, one of which is indicated at I, and which consists of' aboard or the like having four rows of holes or sockets, with the figures25, 50, 75, and 100 at the head of these rows, reading from the left tothe right. Each row is shown to consist of ten holes or sockets, and thehorizontal row at the top is indicated by 100, the next by 200, and eachsucceeding row is indicated by a corresponding figure, until the lastrow, which is indicated by 1,000. Below this series of sockets isanother series of sockets J, four in number, representing thousands ofmiles, so that the fourth socket represents four thousand miles.

The player who first gains a total mileage equal to that of the flightcourse or route selected for the game, wins. If one player gains amileage equal to that of any one stopping point and any other playergains a mileage which will tie this player, the first one is forced tostart over again from the last stopping point and deduct, as a penalty,the rst player being under the necessityI of advaincing from a givenstopping point before it is reached and tied by any of the otherplayers.

When a play has been madethe value of the play is counted by means of apeg inserted in a hole in the counting or tally board, which correspondsto the value of the play. Thus, if the play have a value of 75 a peg isinserted in the hole 75. As the Lemmi total amount increases the pegsare shifted downwardly and when a thousand miles have been gained a pegis inserted in the first hole ol the thousand mile series of holes,indicated at J.

Having described my invention l claim Amay be built up corresponding tothe total mileage of any one flight course.

2. A game apparatus consisting of a game board arranged to representgeographical divisions and centers providing stopping points, suchcenters being representative of the capitols of the geographicaldivisions the distances between certain of the centers being shown inmileage figures or totals arranged in multiples of a given number, suchcenters being organized into flight courses, a flight positionindicating device for each player, and means for producing plays ofdifferent values corresponding to the multiples of mileage figures, andmeans for keepingtally of the plays produced.

Signed by me at 68 Holly Street, Indian Orchard, Mass.

ALFRED E. JONES.

